Brian Aldiss Famous Quotes



"When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay."


Brian Aldiss Quotations






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"Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other."
Carl Jung

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.
Edith Newbold Jones Wharton

"If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people."
George Bernard Shaw

"Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive."
John Kenneth Galbraith

"The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others."
James Arthur Baldwin

"Donnie Brasco Forget about it is like if you agree with someone, you know, like Raquel Welsh is one great piece of ass, forget about it. But then, if you disagree, like A Lincoln is better than a Cadillac Forget about it you know But then, it's also like if something's the greatest thing in the world, like mingia peppers, forget about it. But it's also like saying Go to hell too. Like, you know, like Hey Paulie, you got a one inch pecker and Paulie says Forget about it Sometimes it just means forget about it"
Donnie Brasco

"Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score Then to that twenty, add a hundred more A thousand to that hundred so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun."
Robert Herrick

You till be glad to know the President is practicing safe snacks. in reference to her husband's fainting spell caused by a pretzel
Laura Bush

People say I've had brushes with the law. That's not true. I've had brushes with overzealous prosecutors.
Mark Duffy